From: Krakow, Poland

Education: Music Academy in Krakow; University of Arts in Graz; School for Strings New York

I play and teach: Violin

Personal Teaching Statement: I start my students under the Suzuki philosophy and pedagogy. I believe in the power of small steps and breaking up the difficulties into easier, “digestible” bits. I believe in music as a tool to creating social connections and sustaining values, such as excellence, solidarity and inclusion. I seek to educate my students in the way that they develop more refined feelings, appreciation for arts, joy of making music and self-confidence coming from doing things well.

Biography: Born in Krakow, Poland, violinist Anna Majcherczyk graduated with honors from the Music Academy in Krakow and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Within the framework of “Socrates-Erasmus” Scholarship, she studied at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg. As concertmaster of the Krakow Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, she made her debut as a soloist with this orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. As a member of various ensembles, she has performed in prestigious concert halls such as the Musikvereinsaal in Vienna, the Berliner Philharmonie, Tonhalle Zürich and Paul Hall at the Juilliard School. She participated in master classes given by Thomas Brandis, Krzysztof Penderecki, Ralf Gothoni, Reiner Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) and Peter Goetzel and Volkhard Steude (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra).

From 2012 to 2018 she was associate leader of the second violins of the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2016, during a sabbatical year, she taught violin at the National Institute of Music in San José and other music schools in Costa Rica. She has dedicated herself to the promotion of classical music by creating, in her home country Poland, a series of concerts for families. In 2020 she collaborated with the Fundación Sinfonía Concertante de Panama (FUNSINCOPA) teaching violin classes and being the liaison between FUNSINCOPA and the prestigious Orchestra of the Americas. She also created for the Foundación the successful international masterclass series “Escuela sin Fronteras.”

Currently based in New York, she performs chamber and orchestral music, serves as guest concertmaster at The Bronx Opera and The New York Repertory Orchestra. Aside from her duties as a performer, she teaches extensively at the Opportunity Music Project, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Washington Heights Community Conservatory of Fine Arts. She refines her teaching skills through Suzuki certification at the School for Strings in New York.